Arizona · Public charity
Cardinal Charities Inc
The purpose of the organization is to raise and distribute funds to other qualified section 501(c)(3) organizations. Primarily, the organization grants funds to other exempt organizations that promote education and medical research, and assist families including low-income families and children.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $247k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $56,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Cardinal Charities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $247k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $307k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $1.1M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.6M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $736k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $248k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $1.1M | 47% |
| FY2017 | 44 | $897k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| State of Arizona | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $478,779 | 3 | 0% |
| The Washington Education Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Dignity Health Foundation East Valley | $201,667 | 8 | 1% |
| Local First Arizona Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Barrow Neurological Foundation | $186,667 | 9 | 0% |
| Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association | $186,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Joseph's Foundation | $101,667 | 6 | 0% |
| Tanque Verde High Football Booster Club | $100,140 | 1 | n/a |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 123 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($465k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cardinal Charities Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Thunderbirds Charities · Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · BHHS Legacy Foundation · American Express Foundation
How this is measured
About Cardinal Charities Inc
- How much does Cardinal Charities Inc give?
- Cardinal Charities Inc reported 19 itemized grants totaling $247,000, out of $1,921,001 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cardinal Charities Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (24%), Education (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are Cardinal Charities Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: State of Arizona ($1.0M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($479k), The Washington Education Foundation Inc ($400k).
- Does Cardinal Charities Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cardinal Charities Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thunderbirds Charities, Arizona Community Foundation, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.
- Where is Cardinal Charities Inc based?
- Cardinal Charities Inc is based in AZ.
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